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SPECIES Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
Author: | Schreber, 1774. | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 1: 174, pl. 62. | Common Name: | Greater Horseshoe Bat | Type Locality: | France. | Distribution: | Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia; S Europe from Portugal to Greece and north to S England, the Netherlands, S Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria; Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, and Azerbaijan; Urkrain, Crimea, and Caucacus regions; the Mediterranean coast from Turkey to Israel and Jordan; NE Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, S Kazakhstan, Afganistan, Pakistan, N India, Nepal, Sikkim, China, Korea, and Japan; adjacent small islands. Records at some localities in northern Europe (e.g., the Netherlands) apparently reflect temporary northern range extensions (Glas and Voûte, 1992a). | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | ferrumequinum species group. Revised by Strelkov et al. (1978). Reviewed in part by Yoshiyuki (1989), Harrison and Bates (1991), Paz (1995), Kock (1996), Bates and Harrison (1997), Sinha (1999), Zagorodnyuk (1999), Horácek et al. (2000) and Gaisler (2001a). Subspecies limits are somewhat unclear and there may be more than one species present in this complex; see discussion in Csorba et al. (2003). |
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